US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on March 3 for "Method and system for synchronizing configuration data in a plant" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,427, issued on March 3, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method and system for synchronizing configuration data in a plant" was invented by Sten Gruener (Laudenbach, Germany), Heiko Koziolek (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Julius Rueckert (Langen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method includes partitioning a network into first and second sub-networks connected by a network connection. A first component with first configuration data and a first local server are located in the first sub-network; a second component with second configuration data and a second local server are located in the second sub-n...